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This dataset contains black-and-white mugshot photographs of 1,573 people. The 3,248 undated photos appear to be many decades old...

The federal government announced a plan Wednesday that would wrest control of the country’s transplant system from its longtime nonprofit contractor

In most cases, the students on Bradford’s list for summer visits land there because of a label—“high risk”—assigned to them by a racially inequitable algorithm

It took Malena and Ben a year to do this investigation. It required extensive interviews, time spent reading 600-page court documents, and filing requests

It took six years, from the algorithm’s deployment in 2017 until “Inside the Suspicion Machine” published, for the public to get a full picture of how it worked

Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them

The crux of this fight is over a concept called “disparate impact” and whether the FCC should use it to identify whether an ISP has engaged in discrimination.

We’re excited to announce that Michael Reilly, a science and technology journalist for nearly two decades, will be joining The Markup as its managing editor.

So I’m thrilled to share this Q&A with associate professor of computer science at University of California, Riverside, Shaolei Ren